Carson's Silent spring: a reader's guide

Getting to Silent Spring. The making of a publishing bombshell -- Author, author. The post-war machine in the garden. Control of nature -- Science -- Science-industry-government collusion -- Militaries, militarisms, and the atomic world -- Crises of confidence. Needless havoc : Carson's case against pesticides. The elixirs of death -- Thinking like an ecosystem -- "Chemical death raining down" : aerial spraying -- Cry for the birds -- The aquatic holocaust -- Pesticides today. One in every four. Domesticating the poisons -- Life just not quite fatal -- Poison on the plate -- The ecology of the body -- Disease outcomes. Alternatives. Passion, wonder, and beauty -- Pragmatic alternatives -- Scientific uncertainty. Responses to Silent Spring. A book like no other -- Stigmatizing perfectly good chemicals * (*and killing Africans at the same time).